Program: Surface Water Quality

Lead: Tim Pine
Phone: (510) 643-8542
E-mail: tpine@berkeley.edu

Team: Environmental Protection
Associate Director: Greg Haet

Description

The EH&S Surface Water Quality program assists campus in surface water pollution prevention and in the restoration of Strawberry Creek on the central campus. Program activities include providing compliance assistance to campus on watershed management and storm water regulations, sampling and analyzing storm water, assessing sources of storm water pollutants on campus, stenciling storm drains and developing educational guidelines and programs. Since 1987, EH&S has coordinated the Strawberry Creek Environmental Quality Committee, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the restoration of Strawberry Creek. If you have any questions about surface water quality or Strawberry Creek, contact Tim Pine.

Resources

Sanitary Sewer Management Plan (PDF file) and Emergency Response Plan for Sanitary Sewer (PDF file)

California Stormwater BMP Handbooks (http://www.cabmphandbooks.com)

Fact Sheet: Keeping Strawberry Creek Clean
Provides guidance for the Storm Water Pollution Prevention programs and covers all water discharges to the storm drain system, even during dry weather. A PDF file(236K) is also available to download using Adobe Acrobat.

Strawberry Creek web site (http://strawberrycreek.berkeley.edu)